Oak Creek park and trails project

Angie Langevin, crew leader for Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, walks down a new trail that overlooks downtown Oak Creek. Crews from the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps have been working with the town of Oak Creek on several projects that improve the recreational opportunities for residents.
Photo by John F. Russell

Stu Hassell, an employee with the public works department in Oak Creek, is a driving force behind creating a new pump track in a park being built in downtown Oak Creek.
Photo by John F. Russell

Mark Wertheimer, assistant director for Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, talks about a project to build a new park in the middle of downtown Oak Creek and how the young people in the Youth Corps have worked to provide new recreational opportunities for town residents.
Photo by John F. Russell

Oak Creek Mayor Nikki Knoebel looks at the original plans to improve recreational opportunities in Oak Creek that were drafted in the early 1990s with Mark Wertheimer, of the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, left, and Stu Hassell, a Oak Creek public works employee.
Photo by John F. Russell

Brandon Roche, of the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, works on a new hiking trail in Oak Creek.
Photo by John F. Russell